Hydrocarbons



UNITED STATES Pn'rn r FFIcE enon'en H, LILLEY, or no. 24 nnoucnron ROAD,stronn nnwrncron,

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IMPROVEMENTJNIQTHE MANUFACTURE or POROUS BLOCKS FOR meme comeu snor 0F-HYDROCARBONS.

- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,196, dated J uric3,1879 application filed- April 10, 1879; patented in England,Septem'ber 26, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, GEORGE HENRY LILLEY, ofNo. 24 Broughtou Road, StokeNewington,

in the county of Middlesex, England, haveinvented an ImprovedManufacture of lorous Blocks for Effecting Combustion of Hydrocarbons;and do hereby declare-that the following description forms a fuli andexact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature andprinciples of my said improvements,

by which my inventionmay be distinguished from others of a similarclass, together-with;

I starters as I'c'laiin' and desire to secure by u give cohesion to themass. 'I mold this compound into blocks of the shape desired, preferablyspherical, or approximately so, dry them, and then bake or burn them asbricks are'burned, the efi'ect of the burning being to consume 'thecarbonaceous ingredients and render -the block porous throughout itsstructurc. v

The proportions'of the ingredients may be Varied within certain limits.Practically, I find'the following-proportions suitable: fire;

clay, or fire-clay mixed with about tn'renty -five per cent. ofpipe-clay, sixty parts; sand, one part; and sawdust, eighteen partsr 7Blocks made as I have described andsoaked with hydrocarbon areconveniently applicable forlig'hting or kindling fi'res to burn otherfuel or the hydrocarbon with which these blocks are soaked may be usedexclusively asthe fuel,

or for the purposes of illumination, and thus liquid hydrocarbons, theburning of which is usually. attended'with difficulties, are renderedavailablefor heating purposes.

LHEEY DL. thus described the nature of my said invention, and the bestnnean's'lk nowofcarrying; it into practical operation, I would have itunderstood that I make no generalclaim to the rendering of ceramicmaterials porous by their admixture before burning withcarbonaceous'm'atter, as has been proposed for makin g artificialmillstones; .but

I-claim- 1. The manufacture of porous refractory blocks applicable forthe burning of hydro carbons, with which they are saturated, by

forming a compound consistingchiefly'of ar-' gillacequs and carbonaceousmaterials, moldingthe compound into blocks, drying and burning the same,substantially as herein described 2, Asa new article of manufacture, aporbon, for use as a fire-kindler.

.ous refractory block saturated with hydrocar- In testimony whereof Ihave signed'mym name to this; specification, in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses, this 28th day of March,'1879.

' GEO. H. LILLEY. Witnesses: v

' Guns. D, ABEL,

J Nb. 1?, M. MILLARD.

